Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 / Susan E. Klepp.

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Klepp, Susan E [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (vi, 312 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469600796
146960079X
9780807838716
0807838713

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Revolutionary conceptionsDDC classification:

304.6/66082097309033 22

LOC classification:

HQ766.5.U5 K54 2009eb

NLM classification:

2010 A-119
HQ 766.5.U5

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Contents:

Introduction. first to fall: fertility, American women, and revolution -- Starting, spacing, and stopping: the statistics of birth and family size -- Old ways and new -- Women's words -- Beauty and the bestial: images of women -- Potions, pills, and jumping ropes: the technology of birth control -- Increase and multiply: embarrassed men and public order -- Reluctant revolutionaries -- Conclusion. fertility and the feminine in early America.

Awards:

American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2010.

Summary: By examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, beauty, and identity, Klepp demonstrates that many American women--rural and urban, free and enslaved--began to radically redefine motherhood during the Age of Revolution as they asserted, or attempted to assert, control over their bodies, their marriages, and their daughters' opportunities.

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"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

By examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, beauty, and identity, Klepp demonstrates that many American women--rural and urban, free and enslaved--began to radically redefine motherhood during the Age of Revolution as they asserted, or attempted to assert, control over their bodies, their marriages, and their daughters' opportunities.